Electricity in the air for one Cuban couple’s two-wheeler wedding procession

Wedding processions on wheels are nothing new along Havana’s famous seafront drive, the Malecon, but this week electric motorcycles and scooters joined a tradition that in the past has included horse-drawn carriages and vintage U.S. cars. The procession for one couple on Wednesday was a sign of the times in Communist-run Cuba as residents get resourceful amid an economic crisis that has all but paralyzed public transport, sent taxi prices through the roof and led to long lines to buy gasoline. The bride, 21-year-old Daniley Aguiar, said the couple were big fans of the electric vehicles, called “motos”, and so the unique procession was “something I always wanted to do.”